Guidance

Rural Payments service: check for maintenance and downtime

Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks

Applies to England

There will be times when the Rural Payments service is unavailable because of essential planned maintenance and updates.

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will aim to minimise disruption to the service by scheduling planned maintenance times. We will try to give as much notice as possible about maintenance and downtime of the service, though we may not always be able to do this.

What maintenance and downtime is scheduled

Maintenance and downtime scheduled for the next 4 weeks. Some dates and times may change during the 4-week period.

From To Reason for downtime
2:00 pm Tuesday
11 March
4:30 pm Tuesday
11 March
General maintenance
5:15 pm Thursday
13 March
9:00 am Friday
14 March
Major maintenance
6:00 pm Thursday
19 March
9:00 pm Friday
2819 March
4:00 General maintenance
6:00 pm SundayFriday
3021 March
11:00 pm Friday
21 March
MajorSystem maintenance
6:00 pm Wednesday
0226 AprilMarch
9:00 pm Wednesday
0226 AprilMarch
General maintenance
6:00 pm FridayWednesday
1102 April
11:009:00 pm FridayWednesday
1102 April
SystemGeneral maintenance
6:00 pm Wednesday
16 April
9:00 pm Wednesday
16 April
General maintenance
6:00 pm Wednesday
30 April
9:00 pm Wednesday
30 April
General maintenance

Types of maintenance

There are different types of maintenance that need to be carried out.

Type of maintenance Maintenance details
Major Planned downtime to release new functionality and software upgrades
General Weekly planned downtime to update land and customer details
System To fix system functionality

Updates to this page

Published 10 October 2023

Last updated 2711 March 2025 + show hide all updates" href="#full-history">+ show all updates
    1. Added and removed various dates and times of the downtimes

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